Japan's isolation was rudely shattered in the 1850s, and in the ensuring domestic turmoil, a new government of radical reformers bent on rapid modernization and westernization replaced the Tokugawa shogunate. ... There is a great change in 1867 that was succeed to be a new period "MeiJi"2 To complete the goals of "Rich country, strong army," the Meiji new government understood that the Japanese economy would have to grow and develop rapidly, especially in industry, which could support the military. There new government took the lead in starting and subsidizing heavy industries such as i...

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The Meiji Restoration was period in Japan when massive changes in ancient Japan. ... By doing this the Japanese managed to strengthen the economy, strengthen the government, and make social reforms. ... In 1889 they adapted the German for of government. ... The government set up new schools and universities and hired westerners to teach the new generation modern technology. ... While the government agreed to some increases in education for women, it dealt harshly with other attempts at change. ...

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Japanese-Canadians were specifically stigmatized for their perceived unassailability, economic competitiveness, high birth rate, and a lingering loyalty to Japan (Ward 459). ... They begin by arguing on behalf of the Federal government's actions, however throughout the article they criticize the government for its lack of decisive action. ... Although there is evidence, which indicates one government agency's intelligence service was ineffective, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that they were all so poorly equipped. ... The RCMP noted that the Vancouver consul and his ...

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The new government aimed to make Japan a state focused on equality among its people. ... The Meiji government also forced the return of all former feudal lords" land back to the emperor in order to stabilize the government and divide it into prefectures. ... This, being a high priority for Japan, the government introduced a universal conscription of a new army and navy. ... This being a main cause of the Sino-Japanese War there is also the underlying cause of China sending troops to Korea without notice to the Japanese government. ... The two countries secured a treaty but the Chinese gove...

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Military strength was imperative for the government control over the nation and protecting themselves from the West. ... The government needed a centrally controlled army, which was loyal to the emperor. ... To finance industry the Japanese needed money, but the government did not want foreign loans that could lead a loss of Japanese independence. ... Some of the Meiji leaders believed that the Western constitutional government was a source of western strength. ... Because the Meiji leaders wish for power to remain in their hands, they copied the authoritarian German system of government. ...

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Japan over a period of time changed from a quasi-democratic government into a militaristic type dictatorship. ... These values taught obedience not to a democratic but to the emperor; so the fact that the militaristic government of the 1930's ruled under the emperor meant that the Japanese were loyal to this government just as they had been to the government of the 1920's. ... During the 1930's it became an ideological weapon teaching Japanese that they were a superior country that had a right to expand and that its government was divinely lead by a descendent of the sun god. .....

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On December 1st, the American Ambassador Grew notified the Japanese government that the gunboat would embark from Nanking on December 11th along with three Standard Oil barges. ... While survivors attempted to make their way to shore, the Japanese fighters strafed them. ... The Japanese government's official inquiry resulted in the claim that the Panay and the vessels in her care had been mistaken for Chinese vessels attempting to flee Nanking. ... However, the United States Government anxious to avoid war, accepted the mistake theory and Japan's apology. In 1947, th...

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This pact ensures that, should one of the three governments go to war against the United States, the other governments will also declare war. Should Japan strike a United States territory, we will have no choice but to declare war on Japan. ... For Japan, the time for war is now. ... Should the Japanese attack American Troops, the American People will rally behind any measures taken against Japan. ... Nonetheless, allow Japan to strike first. ...

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Japan wanted to immobilize U.S.'... The United States responded by creating Japanese-American Internment Camps, which uprooted tens of thousands of Japanese-American families. ... Tension between Japan and the United States started in 1931. ... Japanese government saw this move as a threat to Japan's survival because Japan doesn't have many natural resources. ... Some people think that Japanese American Internment Camps came about because the government was motivated by racial prejudice because of the attack, and I think that could be a big reason. ...

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In Confucianism, it believed it had solved the problem of government. ... In 1894-5 even Japan joined in the humiliation of China when it defeated China in the Sino-Japanese War. ... Japan shared China's distrust of the West. ... Japan edged towards civil war. ... The Charter Oath was passed to give the people an idea of the aims of the government and the directions of future policy. ...

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The U.S. government issued a total trade embargo. ... It turned out the Japanese had a numerical advantage. ... This was Japan's opportunity. ... Japan had lost little and had proved victorious. ... The Japanese had once again felt like a surpreme power. ...

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Offensive modernization in Japan was increased in 1868 as part of the Meiji Restoration. ... The most important step and process of the Meiji government was the process of sending their own ministers overseas to see the awesome power of change. By 1876, the Japanese eradicated the samurai class as well as the luxuries associated with it. ... The creation of a conscription based army led to Japan's new opposing force that led it to be one of the quickest growing superpowers. ... So with Russia's capability to imitate the west it developed ideas in technology and government that le...

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Before 1941, the Japanese had been behaving very imperialistically. ... In July of 1941, the Japanese Empire invaded the remainder of French Indochina. ... (Revolutionary) Simply put, the western empires and the Japanese empires crashed in the Pacific and Japan was the first to strike; the United States had an empire that Japan wanted. However, government officials should have foreseen this problem and prepared one of the furthest and most diplomatically important military bases further against the possibility of Japanese aggression. ... Another sign was that the Japanese attack was not th...

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The new government soon had control of the entire country. ... The Samurai lost their class privileges, when the government declared a1l classes to be equal. ... This gave the government money to spend to build up the strength of the nation. ... This was very expensive, however, and strained government finances, so in 1880 the government decided to sell most of these industries to private investors, thereafter encouraging such activity through subsides and other incentives. ... In 1872 the government established a national education system to educate the entire population. ...

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The idea of Japanese imperialism and their dominance started after the introduction of Meiji Restoration, a reform, renovation, revolution, and renew of the government system, and it brought the practical imperial rule in Japan in 1868. During the restoration, Japanese political system was returned to the Emperor Mutsuhito, and he seized military power from the Shogun and established new government. ... Within Japan, the new government aggressively go ahead with westernization and modernization. ... Following the day after Japanese Imperial Army surrendered Hong Kong Government; they decreed J...

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However, they were being exiled and despised by Canadian government due to her family is Japanese. It is because Japanese armies attacked Pearl Harbor at that time and the World War II were begun spontaneously. ... Is it because they are Japanese and is it a reason that you can aim all the enmities toward them? ...

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The movie revolves around the decisions made by the key officials in different departments of both Japan and the United States (US) government. ... Japan, on the other hand, was already devising a plan on the U.S. ... Another factor that greatly affected the situation was the late delivery of the message of the Japanese government. ... The results of the Japanese attack could have been different, if only the warning from the Japanese Diplomats to the United States embassy came upon the agreed time. ... The attack of the Japanese could also have been different if only the United States and the ...

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The path to problems between Japan and America started many years before the attack, in the 1930's when Japan tried to conquer all of China. ... The Japanese government saw these acts on behalf of America, an Arsenal of Democracy, as a threat to Japan remaining an independent and surviving nation. Because their country lacks natural resources and had an embargo placed on them, the Japanese government decided to overpower and occupy the areas in Southeast Asia that had lots of resources (Infamy). ... Japanese leaders felt that if the attack met that criterion, Japan would dominate the Pa...

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Both sides, American and Japanese are portrayed. The American forces are lead by Admiral Kimmel and the Japanese by Admiral Yamamoto. ... As the movie begins the Japanese are preparing for the attack. ... Various intercepted messages gave the American government a very small amount of concrete information upon which to act. ... was how it cuts back and forth between Japan and the United States. ...

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Despite the public announcement regarding the issues, the world soon began to get a glimpse of the truth that the Japanese military had in fact staged the assassination to create an avenue for the Japanese military to go to arms. ... Reports surfaced that his son, Chang Hsueh-Liang, had attempted to arise anti-Japanese sentiment throughout Manchuria and Japanese military forces saw an opportunity. ... Wakatsuki ultimately failed in the attempt to carry out his emperor's wishes and the Japanese military continued on its campaign throughout China which eventually pleaded to the League of ...

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In 1931 Japan conquered Manchuria, which until then had been part of China. ... "Because the Japanese were very poor in natural resources, its governmental viewed these steps, especially the embargo on oil as a threat to the nation's survival. ... Since the United Sates created an embargo against the Japanese, the Japanese were not worried because they lacked the natural resources provided by the United States. ... The United States was now a target for an attack led by the Japanese. ... The dispute between the natural embargo on Japan by the United States, and the Affairs between Japan a...

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The Bombing of Pearl Harbor was a total surprise to the United States Military Forces, and to the United States government. ... (Prange, 80) When Japan signed an agreement with Germany and Italy, the United States increased its forces in the Pacific to keep Japan in check. ... Roosevelt appealed to the Japanese Emperor to work for peace. ... The Japanese attacked in two separate waves. ... They put all the Japanese Americans into camps because they thought that they might have been involved with giving information to the Japanese. ...

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